...Case Study: Grayson Chemical Company Presented by: Allan Bermudez Marlon Abito Zarny Zaragoza CASE STUDY: Grayson Chemical Co. Executive Summary: Grayson Chemical Co, a 40-year old company manufactures industrial chemicals sold to other industrial companies. It has been run by a stable management in which there had only been two presidents. However, within the past few years, the company is suffering from declining earnings and sales. This has brought pressure from the board of directors, investment bankers, and stockholder groups to name a new president. The company had become stagnant – (although at Grayson, they refer to this as conservative) and had steadily lost market standing and profitability. Finally, the board decided to hire a new CEO and was able to hire a dynamic manager from another major corporation. CASE STUDY: Grayson Chemical Co. Tom Baker, 47 and an MBA, has helped his former company into a leadership position. He has chosen to join Grayson after another executive was chosen for the top job in his former company. Baker knows what he needs to do and that is to develop a topnotch management team that could provide leadership to turn the company around. Unfortunately, the situation at Grayson is not very favorable. Decisions are made by the book or taken to the next higher level. Things were done because “they have always been done this way,” and incompetent managers were often promoted to higher level jobs. Baker met with three members of the board...
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...Short Essay’s Questions/Answers On WESTERN CIVILIZATION Submitted by Dated Sec 1, Q1: Nineteenth century Europe began an enormous program of global expansion, establishing colonies in much of Africa and Asia. What domestic factors, old and new, caused this flurry of colonial activity in the period after the 1870s? What is the connection between this new imperialism and Social Darwinism? What can we learn about the process and success of imperialism in Africa and Asia from Conrad’s story? Answer The European colonialism brought different changes to the domestic level in Africa and Asian regions. The period after 1870s brought imperialistic aggression in African and Asian countries alongside the diplomatic pressures, colonial conquest and military invasion especially in the regions of Africa. The domestic people faced the foreign domination and attempt of colonization. During the 1870s the Europeans succeed to under control only 10% of the African region and it was the period when Europe started to grab the African land by the 1914, around 90 percent of the African continent was under control of Europeans (The Creation, 2011). In Africa the Berlin conference played vital role in regulating colonization alongside the trade in the African regions. Similarly in the Asian region in subcontinent, the European Colonialism was established ant later on the imperialism was started in 1857 after the freedom war. The European colonialism gradually extend its control over the political...
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...tenacious military and intelligence capabilities. Due to its geopolitical disadvantage, Israel must utilize aggressive and resilient tactics against terror groups, state, and non-state actors. Are targeted killings a necessary resort? Are other enforcement and intelligence strategies just as effective? Israel has propagated targeted killings as effective and credits this action with saving more lives of the innocent while reducing terrorist incidents. More lives than? Is the practice of targeted killing easily adopted when it benefits the public and state behind the killing? Are targeted killings a short-sighted campaign that will foster future agitation against Israel? In 1948, Israel was declared a state sparking loud not concession, conflict! Concession is something you give away to placate an opponent from Arab nations....
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...the soul and the heart of a learning institution, that is the component of a school that motivates the principal, teachers and the students to be allured to the school and love to stay and always be associated by the school and its environment. The metaphorical reference to a school climate underscores its significance; it gratifies and motivates the school members a feeling of comfort with and without the college, and thus any attributes regarding the school. In lieu of this, the school climate is the aspect of the school that offers it life as well as revealing cherished values of the college. The concepts of organizational climate deals with the perception of the members of the staff about the environment in which they work (Grayson & Alvarez, 2008). This surrounding is influenced and affected by the administration skills projected by the school management which is in turn translated to the motivation and the demeanor of the whole staff membership (Loukas & Murphy, 2011). In a more straight forward way, a climate would refer to the teachers’ quality of relative endurance that affects the way they behave and that base on their collective perceptions (Cross & Ji, 2012). Another research proposes that an organizational climate is the individuals’ perception of the environment in which they work. These individuals include the management, the staff and even the students in the case of a school...
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...California’s Illegal Immigration Almost all American’s are immigrants to this country, at some point illegal. After so many years of this country being taken over and developed, the history of where the people came from remains in textbooks and with the history majors. Now many states of this nation are again being captivated with illegal immigrants. The state of California is getting hit hard with the pouring of immigrants legal and illegal. “The best estimates suggest that California was home to about 2.8 million illegal immigrants in 2006”. California also has the highest population of immigrants in the nation (Johnson par.1). “Historically, immigrants have moved into the state to become major elements of the labor force, often taking jobs that others found undesirable. Agricultural work, piecemeal garment production, and day construction are among areas of the economy that have been filled by immigrants” (Gerston 2). The flow of illegal immigrates to California started since the states birth in 1850, with an on flow of people from Asia and Mexico. It wasn’t till the end of World War II that the on flow of illegal immigrants would start to take labor and benefits from the state (Gerston 3). Then from the mid 1960’s to mid 80’s an illegal immigration boom accorded. A program called the Bracero Program was made to supply steady cheap labor to agricultural growers in California (Nadadur 1040). This boom set a course to a population explosion of undocumented workers and...
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...Are modern-day cartoons getting degraded? Chapter 2: Literature review Nobody will deny the fact that modern-day cartoons make big influence on children all over the world. It is a grave issue which affects all the members of the society. Basically, this problem starts from parents, who don’t spend their free time with children and don’t pay attention on children’s growing stage. Parents should follow their children; a child needs to feel love of parents, their attention and presence. Amy and Cantor (2000) maintain that if parents do not attract attention to their children, later children will not very fun to love historically and began to beat, pinching other people, imitating the heroes in the cartoons. Parents, teachers, psychologists ask themselves whether it is dangerous for the emerging modern cartoons for child's psyche or not? What is the best choice for child: foreign or domestic cartoons? Is it necessary to let the kids watch cartoon, whether they are useful or not? Cartoons are loved by kids of all ages not by chance. On the one hand cartoons are bright, spectacular, and imaginative and on the other hand are simple, unobtrusive, and similar in their developmental, educational opportunities tale game, live human communication. Characters of animated films exhibit a variety how to interact with the outside world for child. They form the baby primary notions of good and evil, the standards of good and bad behavior. By comparing themselves with their...
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...Servant Leadership Research and Application Paper Annette Fuqua Grand Canyon University: LDR 630 August 21, 2013 Introduction: In a leadership role, one has to make many difficult decisions along with being able to communicate with different cultures. The way one handles a problem could make or break an organization. There are many leadership models that will allow one in a leadership role to handle any problem that may arise in a professional manner. In this paper, I will be reflecting and analyzing on a situation that I had to handle while in a supervisors role. In handling the situation, I will be applying three different leadership models Emotional and Social Intelligence, Valued Based Leadership, and Servant Leadership to handle the same situation. Although, three different leadership models were utilized in the end I will ex-simply that one can utilize any of the models to resolve the situation that will have positive effect for everyone, while maintaining the professionalism that is needed and should be exhibited by any organization. My primary focus will be on servant leadership. By doing this could only allow any organization to grow and be very profitable. The perception of the word leadership is appropriate when speaking about anti-emotional and anti-constructive. As a society in whole we are accustomed to taking any means necessary to prevail in the lead of others. One can observe the different styles of leadership which entails looking out for themselves...
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...How to be empathetic: 1: Give chance to everyone to express themselves. They must feel that their opinions or conflicts are heard and they are important for the organisation. Make them realise that they are a part of the organisation and leaders or managers care for them. 2: See the situation from the others angel and try to find out the validity on theirs point. 3: ask yourself what you would do if you are in their position, what you would seek at that time, what will be your expectation. 4: examine the situation from organisation points too and try to find out a solution which is both beneficial for employees and the organisation as well. 5: Evaluate your action and attitude towards them. Do you want to be good for them only to win their hearts or really thinking about them and caring for them and also at what cost to the...
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...Introduction This report discusses the impact of pricing, relationship management, prestige seeking consumer behavior on customer satisfaction. Specifically as it relates to formulating a marketing strategy focused on long-term customer relationship management. This thesis discusses the existing consumer knowledge dealing with aspects of pricing. The purpose of this thesis is to combine the concepts of existing research on impacts of pricing on customer satisfaction and studies, which examined entirely different aspects of customer satisfaction, and synthesize valuable new information. Objectives The objectives of the study can be summarized as follows: * Contribute to the emerging literature on pricing and consumption in examining and defining the key perceived values. * Interpret and expand existing consumer behavior models. * Generate a framework to help marketers to build and monitor the pricing of products. * Stimulate further research on pricing and customer satisfaction. Problem Statement How can mangers use various pricing strategies to build stable, long-term relationships with their customers? Pricing has a significant and broad impact on how consumers view and use products, However, it is more difficult to judge the effects that pricing has on product consumption. The relationship between pricing and consumption lies at the core of customer strategy. The extent to which a customer uses a product during a certain time period often determines...
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...I. General Information College Adjustment Scale (CAS) by William D. Anton, PhD and James R. Reed, PhD in 1991, published by Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. (PAR) USA. II. Test Description * Test Content The College Adjustment Scale provide measure of psychological distress, relationship, conflict, low self-esteem, academic and career choice difficulties. The test has multidimensionality construct because it measures almost all problems by college students based on the analysis presented by college counselling centres, which are : Anxiety (AN) a measure of clinical anxiety focusing on common affective, cognitive and physiological symptoms, Depression (DP) a measure of clinical depression focusing on common affective, cognitive and physiological symptoms, Suicidal Ideation (SI) a measure of the content of recent ideation reflecting suicide, including thoughts of suicide, hopelessness and resignation, Substance Abuse (SA) a measure of the extent of disruption in interpersonal, social, academic and vocational functioning as a result of substance use and abuse, Self-Esteem Problems (SE) a measure of global self-esteem which taps negative self-evaluations and dissatisfactions with personal achievement, Interpersonal Problem (IP) a measure of the extent of problem relating to others in the campus environment, Family Problems (FP) a measure of difficulties experienced in relationship with family members, Academic Problems (AP) a measure of the extent of problems...
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...Dominique Grayson | 1020 Summer Cape Cir • League City, TX 77573 913-526-5634 • Dominique.grayson@gmail.com | Systems Administrator SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS * Comptia A+ 801 Certified * Comptia Security + Certified * Currently training for the following certifications: CompTIA A+, Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA): Networking Fundamentals; and Cisco CCENT (all expected by July 2015). * 7+ years of experience in challenging customer service and sales environments * Recognized by current and previous employers for communication and problem solving skills with internal and external customers. * Function as a team player, as well as demonstrate a proven ability to work well independently TECHNICAL SKILLS Service Desk support for major healthcare facilities, Windows Server 2008 and 2012 R2 - planning, deploying, configuring and maintaining AD infrastructure, environment and objects |Client computer support and domain integration | TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, RRAS, IPSEC, Computer Troubleshooting, Cabling | Cisco 2811 router, Cisco 2960 and 3550 switches, basics in Cisco IOS 12.4, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, network tools including Wireshark, and network cabling. TECHNICAL TRAINING Centriq Training Center, Leawood, KS Nov 2014 – July 2015 IT Administrator Program * Technical Competencies: * Installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining hardware. * Windows Sever 2008/2012 R2...
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...Feral Horses in the U.S. – Indigenous or Invasive Feral horse (mustang) herds roaming the Great American Plains are a well-known symbol of American history. Yet few are acquainted with their convoluted history and the socio-political and environmental conflicts they are involved in. The horses of today originated in North America but went extinct in prehistoric times due to unclear reasons. They disseminated to other continents and were reintroduced to North America by Columbus’ men. The period of the horses’ historical absence from North America has sparked debates as to their official status. Some horse advocates and environmentalists argue that feral horses are native to the continent and as such should be protected and given free space to roam. Their main arguments are that horses originated on and inhabited the continent long before humans started populating it, and that the feral horses of the Wild West are a national symbol of history and pride. Others, mainly farmers and agriculturalists, push for population control and limiting the mustangs’ area because they are an invasive non-native species that harms natural ecosystems and competes with livestock for resources. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is responsible for implementing policies concerning feral horses. Currently, following the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the Bureau captures feral horses and gives them away for adoption. The main issue facing the Bureau is the legal and environmental...
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...in an understanding of science. Two children were used for the investigation a boy aged eleven and a girl aged six. The data was collated from video-recorded tasks. The participant’s predictions and explanations were coded. Findings revealed that when the children experienced cognitive conflict or were challenged by the researcher this could cause conceptual change, leading to a developmental progression in the children’s scientific thinking. INTRODUCTION Considerable research exists on the mathematic and scientific thinking of children. Selly, N (1993) proposed a developmental progression of children’s scientific understanding, relating to floating and sinking. Selly argues that young children have a very practical view of buoyancy. As children realise that their explanations are insufficient, they progress through a series of what Selley termed Hypotheses from 1, 1A,2,3,and 4. Cognitive changes in the development of mathematical and scientific concepts are Piaget’s discovery learning, this occurs when children are lone learners working mostly on their own. To get children to progress with their thinking Paiget and his colleagues would challenge pupils and their thinking creating conflict and producing disequilibrium that would initiate the equilibrium processes, producing cognitive change. This links to Selley’s (1993) H 4 (Hypothesis) referred to as the equilibrium which requires the mental deployment of...
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...The following 18 questions relate to Ethical and Professional Standards.(27 minutes) 1. An analyst for a foreign branch of HB Investments, which is based in Lagos, has just issued a recommendation on an IPO. Unknown to the analyst, who is a CFA charterholder, members of her team manipulated the valuation model to increase the newly public company's stock price. She and all of the analysts on the team purchased shares of the oversubscribed IPO for their personal accounts and then purchased the remainder of the firm's allocation of shares for appropriate client accounts, a practice which is permitted by local securities laws. The analyst: A. did not violate the Standard I(A) Knowledge of the Law. B. violated Standard 1(A) Knowledge of the Law by purchasing the shares of the IPO but not by allowing the report to be published. C. violated Standard I(A) Knowledge of the Law both by allowing the report to be published and by purchasing the shares of the IPO. 2. Green Investments utilizes the CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct as their standards for ethical practice. For purposes of compliance, which of the following is least likely a violation of Green Investments' policies? A. One of Green Investments' marketing brochures states that several of the firm's portfolio managers passed all three levels of the CFA exam on their first attempts. B. At a meeting with potential clients, chief investment officer Bill Ray, CFA, states that he is among an "elite group of the most qualified...
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...Teachers and Weapons in Schools Jessica Rhodes Composition II WI12 Instructor S. Cochran February 10, 2013 Abstract In this paper, I will explore the controversial question of whether teachers should be allowed or required to carry weapons on school campuses. The question of whether the topic should be entertained has come up time and again after tragedies occur, the timeline of which will be summarized herein. The recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that devastated the nation on December 14, 2012, has wrenched this debate crudely back into the spotlight. I will investigate different types of protective instruments that could possibly be used, as well as what types are used in schools that have such regulations. I will delve into the reasoning behind states that have implemented laws that allow teachers to carry guns in school and/or at school events. Included within are excerpts from this writer’s first-person interview conducted with Maria Otero-Ball, a kindergarten teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a teacher of children the same age as those involved in the Newtown tragedy, Mrs. Otero-Ball offers a first-hand view on the changes that she and the school have made following the tragedy, as well as her views on the practicality of weapons in the school. My goals in preparing this paper are to expand my thoughts on the subject, peruse the thoughts of others, and explore the statistics to provide a better overall understanding of...
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